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The good folks at Law School Transparency (LST) have published a new index of law schools evaluating their transparency with regard to their employment numbers. LST staff reviewed the websites of every ABA-approved law school during the first week in January 2012, and evaluated how forthcoming each school is with...

The primary purpose of law school is to train lawyers—that seems to make sense. But recent data indicate that a surprising number of law school graduates do not end up practicing law straight out of school. Prof. Brian Tamanaha, who writes frequently about legal education, portrays these...

From today’s New York Times, Downturn Dims Prospects Even at Top Law Schools.
This fall, law students are competing for half as many openings at big firms as they were last year in what is shaping up to be the most wrenching job search season in over 50 years.
There’...

Excellent, thought provoking article (PDF) from New York Law School Dean Richard Matasar in the New York State Bar Journal. Dean Matasar provides a concise account of the economics of legal education and legal employment currently and into the future. I strongly recommend it for all who are weighing a...

Interesting article from the National Law Journal on a variety of new offerings at law schools to increase the marketability of their grads. Certainly something to keep in mind as you are deciding which schools to apply to.
Graduates face stiff competition for law firm positions, and clients are...

The National Association for Legal Career Professionals (NALP) has issued its findings and analysis of employment trends for the law school class of 2010, and it’s almost all bad news. The annual NALP hiring report examines the employment status of law grads in February, nine months after graduation.
”[A]t 87.6%,...

That’s the title of a new article from University of Baltimore Law Professor Richard Bourne, detailing the long slow train wreck that the combination of the rising costs of legal education and the stagnant-to-receding market for legal jobs has engendered. Like any train wreck, it’s not a...

So there’s this raging debate in law world now about the value of a law degree. Some law profs are arguing that it’s a million dollar degree. Others are taking issue with that claim. Who’s right, who’s wrong, and what does it mean for...

Prof. Brian Leiter of the University of Chicago Law School is one of the foremost observers and commentators on law schools. His blog is worth following for a number of reasons, but this post in particular speculates on the future of the big law firm world. In the comments, you’...

The New York Times reports:
You know things are bad when even lawyers are getting laid off.
In downturns of years past, law firms exploited corporate failures and bitter, protracted lawsuits to keep busy and keep billing. But in this still-unfolding crisis, the embittered and the bankrupt have been relatively...